Tamboukine



O. N. POST.

TAMBOURINB.

(No Model.)

No. 347,512, Patented Aug. 17, 1886 ,iNrTEn STATES PATENT ()rrrcn.

CHARLES N. POST, Oh GHICA GO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE XV. LYON, PATRICK J. HFALY, tOBER-T B. GREGORY, AND CHARLES N. POST, ALL

6F SAME PLACE.

TAMBQURlNE.

'ZCISTFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 347,512, dated August 17, 1886.

Application filed March 8,1586. Serial No. 194,359. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES N. Pos'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, countyoi'Gook, and State ofillinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Tambourincs and Banjos, ol which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide novel, simplified, and efiicient means for ad- 10 j usting and holding down what is commonly known as the stretching or straining ring or band of a tambourine. The said invention is, however, also applicable to banjos.

It consists in a tension-hook applied on the Outer side of the hoop, and provided with an eye, which enters a recess in the hoop, and a screw arranged to enter said hoop from its lower or rear edge and engage the eye of the tension-hook. By turning the screw the tension-hook can be readily adjusted and the head rendered more or less tight upon the hoop or body of the instrument. Among other advantages of this device are that the adjusting screws for operating the adjustinghooks are only visible at points along the lower edge of the hook, and they have simply an. ordinary rounded screw-head do not detract from the appearance of the instrument.

The invention is fully illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a transverse section, and Fig.

' 3, a detail, all illustrating the practical application of this invention to a tambourine, it

being understood, however, that it is equally applicable to a banjo.

In said drawings, A designates the hoop, I the head, and U the stretching-rim of a tambourine. The stretching or tension hook O engages the stretching-rim, as is usual in this class of devices, but is provided with an eye, C, which enters a recess, E, formed through the hoop.

F indicates the adj usting-scrcw that is our ployed for adjusting the tension-hook. This screw enters therim at its back or lower edge, 5 passes up through the recess, and engages the eye of the tensioirhook, said eye being screwthreadcd, so that by turning the screw the tension-hook can be adjusted.

It will be observed that thebearings for the adjusting screw are above and below the recess, thus making a simplified arrangement for disposing of the adj Listing-screw.

Nhat I claim as my invention is As an improved means for tightening the 5 head of a tambourine or banjo, the tension hook provided with an eye arranged to enter arecess in the hoop, combined with an adj usting-screw passing up through the hoop and engaging the eye of the tension-hook, substantially as described.

CH AS. N. POST.

\Yitnesses:

thus. G. PAGE, ATFRED FRY.

Corrections in Letters Patent No. 347,512!

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 3-14,;312, granted August 17 1886, Illinois, for an improvement in Lyon, Patrick J. Heal Robert upon the application of Charles N. Post, of Chicago,

Tambourines, was erroneously issued to George W.

l 13. Gregory, and Charles N. Post, whereas said Letters Patent should have been issued l to Lyon ct Hen/h, of Chicago, Illinois, said Lyon 85 Healy being assignees of the l entire interest; it is also certified that the word hook in line 26 of the printed specil fication should have been printed hoop and that said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office. Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 21st day of December, A. D. 1886. l [SEAL] D. L. HAWKINS,

' Acting Secretary of the Interior.

\ Countersigned R. B. VANCE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

Corrections in Letters Patent No.,347,5l2.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 347,512, upon the application of Charles N.

issued to George W. Lyon, Patrick J. Healy, Robert Post, of Chicago, Illinois, for an improvement in Tambourines, was erroneously Q B. Gregory, and Charles N. Post, whereas said Letters Patent should have been issued to Lyon d2; Heady, of Chicago, Illinois, said Lyon 8t Healy being assignees of the entire interest; it is also certified that the word hook in line 26 of the printed specification should have been printed hoop; and that said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to'the record of the Patent Office.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 21st day of December, A. D. 1886.

[SEAL] D. L. HAWKINS,

Gountersigned It. B. VANCE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

granted August 17, 1886,

the case in Acting Secretary of the Interior. I 

